Editor's note: Unless you're obsessively following a favorite band (or five) via your social media of choice (Arcade Fire's set streamed earlier this evening on Vevo, as other performances will), the thing you've probably heard most about Bonnaroo 2011 is that a 32-year-old Pittsburgh woman was found dead outside her tent Thursday night. That's a shame, but thankfully a rarity at festivals like these -- and not the sort of news that should overshadow what's really going on in Manchester: loads of great music.

David Hall is out there living it, reporting back when he can amid performance times that run well into the wee hours -- got a text from him not long after 4 a.m. (Tennessee time) that Ratatat had just wrapped up. After a couple hours of sleep in the campgrounds, he sent along another batch of sharp pics capturing the night's big names: Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacket, Lil Wayne, Florence + the Machine, Big Boi, plus plenty more. Click here or the shot above to view 'em all.

Finding time to write, however, is another matter: Who has time when there are more sets to see? David's catching up as he can but was only able to fire off so many thoughts about Day 2 while darting between stages throughout Day 3 -- and there are still more late-night jams to come. Stay tuned. Plenty more to come.

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The Sword (That Tent, 3:30 p.m.): Some might say metal doesn't fit the Bonnaroo vibe, but this Austin-based quartet undermined any such assumptions during its afternoon set. Appropriately invoking the festival's predominately Southern spirit, the group hit its peak with a shred-filled cover of ZZ Top's "Cheap Sunglasses."

Florence + the Machine: The British pop-rock outfit, which arrives in L.A. for two sold-out shows at the Greek Theatre next week, may still be riding a wave of success off its first album, Lungs, but my word how Florence Welch has transformed since the group's first run of U.S. shows, including its Coachella 2010 appearance.

Aside from the increasing potential of her incredible voice -- which should evolve into an even stronger force worthy of varied musical projects as her career advances -- Welch's demeanor is also changing rapidly: she's less and less playing the part of white-clad wild youth and more blatantly adopting the role of a commanding, fully grown talent. Adorned in a flowing black dress and matching high-heels, she led the band through all its hits and more, her confident strutting, sultry stares and radiant poses communicating the message: she's looking to lead the race for rock's most powerful frontwoman.

My Morning Jacket: What a tremendous performance by the Louisville band, its biggest since releasing its sixth studio album, Circuital, on the last day of May. The group ran through about half of that disc during its lengthy 22-song set; the strongest among them -- "Victory Dance" and the album's title track -- lifted the sun-battered audience off its feet while frontman Jim James scampered and leapt flamboyantly across the stage.

Still, nothing in the group's arsenal was nearly as enthralling as the triple-threat closer: "Highly Suspicious," "Dancefloors" and "One Big Holiday," the former two featuring blasting backup brass from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Of course, MMJ will always be hard-pressed to live up to its three-hour, 35-song bash on the Which Stage in 2008, which included plenty of rare covers and an unlikely collaboration with Metallica's Kirk Hammett on "One Big Holiday." But if anything, this main-stage takeover was a reminder that these guys are bona fide Bonnaroo royalty.

Arcade Fire: It would have been hard for anything to outdo the band's galvanizing, tiptop-tier blowout at Coachella in April, and not just because of the 2,000 lantern-like balls that rained from atop the desert festival's main stage as "Wake Up" swept the audience into gleeful fits of singing and swaying. And though it was a true thrill to witness the group's first 'Roo appearance, and people went absolutely nuts during that same tune here, Coachella still takes the cake for high-ranking historical performance.

But these are just quick thoughts -- I could say much more, and give props to Bassnectar and Ratatat for once again (as they did at Sasquatch) garnering massive, glow-stick-wielding throngs in late-night slots. But time and energy are short, so I've gotta wrap here.

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